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The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12

viii be mere agreeable to have with it
what the world calls agreeable than
beauty. with any fortune not
less than five hundred pounds
at her disposal, except she has
good interest. then less will be agreea-
BILE. Any Lady this may suit will be
waited on by directing line TO G. G.
at Pcele's Coffee house IN Fleet street.
lnviolable secrecy may be depended
upon. as the gentlemen does not choose
seven years siege"
Miss Fisher inserts the following
paragraph in the Public Advertiser of
March 80. 1859: ITO err il blemish
entailed upon mortality. and indlscre-
tions seldom or never escape from cen
sure, the more heavy as the character
II more remarkable; and doubled, nay
trebled by the world IL the progress of
that character Is marked by success;
then malice shoots against it all her
siings, the snakes Of envy are lot loose;
10 the humane and generous heart then
must the injured appeal. and certain
relief will be found in impartial honour.
Miss Fisher 10 forced TO sue TO that ju-
risdiction to protect her from the base
ness of little scribblers and scurvy NAL
svolence; has been abused In public
papers. exposed In print-shops, and to
wind up the whole, some wretches.
mean. ignorant and venal. would inn
pose upon the public by daring to pre-
tend TO publish her Memoirs She
hopes to prevent the success Of their
sndeayors by thus publicly declaring
that nothing of that sort has the slight
est foundation i'm truth. G. FIsuER.
A maiden lady, who wishes 10 enter
into the honorable state of matrimo-
n.y." inserts the following In the Daily
Adrerser Of April IS. 1859: "A middle
aged Maiden Lady. with an indepsnd-
ent fortune. has been determined by
The cruel treatment of those who
from their connections ought 10 have
been her friends. to think of entering
into the honorable state of matrimonV.
She is indifferent as to fortune. so she
meets with gentleman of good NOR
ais and family; indeed. she would
rather wish to marry person without
any fortune, that the gentleman may
have the higher obligations To her. and
of consequences treat her with that ten
derness and regard reasonably To be
expected from persons under such cir
cumstances. Her reason for taking
this method ia. that il has been indus
triously given out by people interested
Qn order. she supposes. to prevent pro-
posalsl. that she had determined
never to marry. Letters with pro-
posal will be received at the Smyrna
Coffee-house. directed for r. H. A de-
scription of the gentleman's person.
age and profession is requested to be
inserted. and how TO direct if the pro-
posals are approved of. The lady's
conduct will bear the strictest scrutiny
No letters received unless postpaid. to
prevent impertinence. - Chambers
Journal.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12
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BESJANIS
A<B
DEBORAH FRASKLTs.

Benjamin Franklin. after many
years spent abroad enligiltening men.
gaining fresh wisdom and laurels.
came home to live in quiet retirement
with his son-in-law. Colonel Richard
Bache. at the old mansion. which
stood in a large park on Market street.
near Fourth. this city. Shortly after
that he wrote a friend: 81 am now
in the bosom of my family and find
our four little prattlers. who cling
about the knees of their grandpapa.
afford me great pleasure. / am sur.
rounded by my friends and have n gopd
daughter and son-in-law TO take care
Of me. have got into my niche. a
very good house. which built twenty
four years ago and out of which l have
been kept ever since by employments-
Franklin had small printing-press
set up on one of the upper floors of the
house, with which he amused himself
many an hour By his experiments. But
so busy life was not destined to be
prolonged in quietness. He had been
settled but n short time when his life
light went out on Saturday. April IL
1870. when he was nearly eighty-five
Three days later, now hundred years
ago. his remains were conveyed to tht
old Friends burying-ground AMI
placed beside those of his wife and the
thin stone slab laid over them.
There was mourning throughout this
and other lands. Twenty thousand
people crowded the streets around that
old burying-ground on the day of the
funeral. and as the simple corteg
the house aud the grove bells through
out the city tolled AMI minute guns
doomed mournfully Clereymen OF
| the CITY of all denominations. the Su-
preme Executive Council of the State.
of which Franklin had been president
the State Assembly. judges.of the SUI
preme Court, members of the bar. the
officials of the city, printers and their
workmen. the Philosophical Society, thf
College of Physicians. the stu
dents and faculty of the Phil
adelphia College and many civic
| organizations attended the funeral
| The pall-bearers were Governor Thos
| M.ffin, Chief-Justice Mexican, Thos
| Willing. president of the Bank OF
North America; Mayor Samuel Powell
VIM. Bingham, and David Rittenhouse
Following the death and burial o
| Franklin came honors and eulogium:
from everywhere In Congress, Mad
| ison offered a resolution which said
Benjamin Franklin was a citizel
whose native genius was not more al
ornament to human nature than hi;
various exertions of it have beer
precious to science"
Friends of Liberty" in France erect
| ed a mausoleum. but Franklin's un
honored grave rests amid the t'rmo
and confusion Of a great, busy city
Philadelphia Cor. N Z. World.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12
FRANKLIN's GRAVE.


It's unnoticed and Neglected Location In
Phiiadeiphia's Busiest Section.
The bare. blank walls of very oil
burying- ground are frowned down upon
by the towering structures of manu-
facture and business that surround and
hem them in in one Of the busiest parts
Of Philadelphia. Inside the burying.
ground walls are trees planted by men
who died from old age years ago.
Birds come and rear their wide -mouthee.
families In this cool oasis i'm the great
desert of throbbiug city streets. One
old man, bent and wrinkled. takes ar
occasional walk over the scarealy dis.
cernible. grass-grown paths. and hi
are the only feet that tread this silent
city of the dead.
In the Arch street wall very near
the corner an opening has been made.
The bricks have been taken away for
space OF perhaps a dozen feet.
Through an iron fence which covers
this opening one can get glimpse Of
the peaceful grounds within. That
graveyard was made long years age
and the noisy city has grown all about
it. crowding il and jpstling il. bu;
never encroaehing beyond its walls
From sun-up to midnight there is .
constant hurrying of wagons and cars
and human beings by this metropolis.
Yet that grated opening has seldom :
visitor. though there lies within few
feet OF 1t the dust of man whose pro-
found wisdom and humanity moved
the whole civilized world.
Not three block away stands gre a;
institution bearing his name-an insti-
tuition fostering all that is scientific and
that lives to learn the hidden things ol
natures laws; that fosters and en-
courages the genius of men and teach
es industry and the value of solid
learning. Less distant in the opposite
direction lies great public square
one of those beneficial breathing-spaces
of the city's pent-up masses. bearing
his name. Ry its side there runs
long. wide street bearing his name
And all over the city there are mill.
and printing shops and factories ane
foundries bearing his name. while al
over the State and country there ars
towns and townships and counties alss
bearing his name. Yet there lie hi.
bones down in the heart of thii
big city. with arteries throbbins
with the work and pleasures o
men. beneath a thin stone slab
which grows greencr and thinner year
by year. obscured by the lightes
SHOWS of winter. the earliest grassei
of summer AMI the first fall of autumn
leaves. A singular end of marvel
| ous mani
1 looked through the bars. Viii
much craning of my neck and mucl
pressing of my face against the bars 1
made out this simple, fast-fading- in
scription in the thin marble slab:
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12
LIME AS a FERTsllzsH.

Pennsylvania Fsrsnerss Aceounk 81 tns
Effects Of It's Use.
In this part Of the country lime 10 Ens#
principal fertilizer outside of basnyard
manure. AS the soil is naturaIiy very
thin we have 70 use something from
the word ..go'' 10 keep up the fertility.
/ think there is n@rllug thas will fef
the same ozflay OF I5loneys gi
in return. IL land L ;pls,fserl iss~
with lime. and then properly farmed.
no one win ever live TO see itneed any
more. Last summer a neighbor called
my attention TO a narrow strip across
one of his oat fields which was three OF
four inches taller than the rest, 49,
explained that the cause of 1t was sslk
bad a small coat OF lime iifty-tvo PEARS
ago." and yet il showed on every sE'zf
to the present time. II the lasa 9a
which it Is applied il extremely
and there is no sod. it should alMatss
have a little manure 10 put on gfll4 J"
10 give the lime something 70 woEk
1t is rather slow in IT'S work. 15A
dom ever see any benefit from a.
till you sow in clover and then
up the sod. And then there IL a. r
at least none raised here. on VIII
not very beneficial. Low clay
that is naturally wet and cold.
perfectly nnderdrained, is O pns7s #
for lime. II shows much Che
high, dry. gravely soils. II
ground is plowed when not in
order on account OF moIstnras
lime has been used. IL seems -
its effects entirely. Here : ~
many farmers make. Because H<'
Dor who has high land can ploHs
VIII too, even if the wafey russ =.
them in the furrow-
When lime is properly applied
feet on the soil is something slzzlz1
yeast in dough for bread. It 4eea
give it life and make il light
low. But in order to get the t.
fit of it we must put it ON IN
style-that is. we must put It
fresh burnt; the hotter the bester. Y,ss
refuse lime that has become wef frouf
exposure is practically worthless n
must be so you can scatter Il On Ike
-four. as evenly. as possible and thea
should be narrowed in without rain.
Where it Ia wet and lies over the field
| in Jumps it never mixes with the soil
and apparently does no good
The amount 70 be used depends on
the former fertility of the Er9ssnd r.
which it il applied, the MSasE
have on hand, the time you
spare without making your crop
| etc. The old idea entertaintl
| grandfathers. that too mueH HsSHanIds
Iethe ground. is extremely fasIae
We have used from 100to 100
| per acre and never lost erop
count of putting on too mt
usually use 500 or go busheI4
and then before we SOW cow1
| give top-dressing of mani
insures good catch. Ther
couple eff years and put
we never fail to get
Land that has beeafssa
tent is scarcely ever n
worms. which is no smaf
times. From past exper
say there is no better III
orchard than hot lime
the growth of the free
10 insects. and sure'
Venango (Pa.i e
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12

Joseph Frick, of Erie, Pa. while
driving a balky horse the other da,
tried to encourage the animal by punch
ing it with the breech of his gun. The
gun was discharged, blowing Friek' :
arm off.
AT a fire alarm in Birmingham.
Ala. the hook and ladder truck was
DIR. en- out, and after going around sew
eral blocks the driver returned to the
station house and asked Treasurer
Evans where the fire was.
-s.My dear, said Mrs. Lilton to her
husband. why do they so often put
appraiser after an auctioneers :
nameP'' because. madam. an aue
tioneer is a praiser of the goods he
'-Golden Rttae.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12
THE SCHOOL MARIN.


See where she comes adown the lhne
With gladness In her laughing eye,
And I'm her hand the rattan cane
Will murder laughter by and by.
Young love turks In her merry tone,
And nestles I'm her roguish looks,
And long hard, crooked questions moan
And sob and snifile In her books.
Her dimpled hand that seelrs, the curl
Coquetting with her graceful head,
Can make boys ears ring and whirl.
And make the boy wish he were dead.
How much she knows, this blooming rose
or human Will and human won't;
One wonder Is. how much she knows,
The other Is how much she don't
Sweet pedagogue. ! envy not
The merry boys who greet thy call;
Thy mother euned my ears, good wot
When she was young and was small.
-Burdette. IN brooklyn Eagle
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12

-Sha teach you what knowledge
Is? When you know thing. to hold
that you know it; and when you do
not know a thing. to confess your igno-
rance. is knowledge.-Co Confttctus.
"A Kansas City man has lemon
that weighs six pounds twelve and one
fourth ounces. Persons desiring to use
photographs of the weed to stir into
wator for picnic purpos s are now being
supplied. Tid-Bits.
She never refused
There was a young lady named Hughes
Who never was known to refughes
To go out of a night,
On young mans inyight,
To take one of a couple of stughes.
-Brooktyn Union
THAT couple who has just passed
MS reminds me of a sort of fruit, which
is neither palatable nor desirable, said
a gentleman to friend. What makes
them so Objectionable" asked his
friend. They are prickly pear. ~
National Weekly.
Mrs. de Hobson (complaeently)-
Yes. Mr.. Featherly. that is a portrait
Of myself when little girl. 1t was
painted by celebrated artist. Mr..
Fcatherly (anxious to say the right
hing)-Er-ons of the old masters
N. X. Sun.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12
- . -
MEXICAN PEOk
A System of bondage Whfch
Than Actual Slavery

Than Actual Slavery.
Peonage is simple in theory an
plex in practice. Ii Is the aftaes
labor for debt 4 species Of
ment is obtained and 8 man -
belong TO the creditor until TIE
wiped out. So far il might
but (and here is the rub) TIL
ton does not end with the del
like the witch curse in ..RHd
becomes hereditary and desc
father TO son until satisfied.
and the further fact that tie o.
Mexican poems are not The
debtors, but the descendants
ors, would seem to indicate fhs
of active prodigals had onc9
in the land; but, on the contrs
of the debts are under ffs
The incredible poverty a
of the masses is the only
of this state of things. n
hundred can cast up tlfsN -.
of accounts. A peon is al1o
only few tlacos day. and ss.s.-a
about a cent and a half. Ont az y,
ana 80 -. eaaal;a.aII.- aiel - -. - s'.ssa ul
..lio oeasly ., .A.eieSs = Aaaed
sne u MAJ .,. ''ino.... % y can l
Iea'',is seen ellsa. li1sss'1u u INCREASING
tne uepe = a1u.,..s som.ng iargs
~ "a ala 'Ae 0-.s..s.eA "a q
The further inland, the more peon
Gu ''io a ''.e asss " ono'a m
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-12

Walton Dwight, who died
at Binghamton. y. T.. had
policies on his life amount
600. The companies
payment of these
fraud. Claims amo7..
have now been settles
of SIS. COO
-Grand Cake: On.
one-half cup each of
corn starch. one and
-four. two teaspoon
powder, and the w1
Dissolve the cornx
You can uSa the
save thrThites
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-18
Oshkosh Defeats st. Paul After an EX-
tremely Long and Most Stubbornly
Contested Game.
Eau Claire Piles Up 20 Runs While Min
neapolfs Secures But A---Milwau-
kee Wins at Des MOines.
Boston, Detroit, Washington and New
York Score Yesterdays Triumphs
in the National League.
The Athletics Shave Their Faces Clean.
and Then Secure Victory From
the st. Louis Nine.

Special to the Globe.
OSHKOSH, Wis, May 17.-SiX hundred
people witnessed. this afternoon, the
longest and greatest game of ball ever
played here. 1t took fifteen innings to
decide it, and but for one of the worst
mutfs imaginable by Legg in the fifteenth
inning the game might have been strung
out indefinitely. Burdick and Nagle
and Viau and Stockwell were the bat
teries. Both pitchers were hit freely,
but the home battery proved the more
effective at critical points. After the
fifth inning, when the score was tied by
st. Paul, it was race for blood, and
though Oshkosh had the game won
twice, it was tied by the heavy batting
of the visitors, five clean base hits being
made off Burdick and five runs made in
the eighth. The out field work of st.
Paul was loose. There were bad errors
elsewhere, but the game was filled with
brilliant plays all round. In the eley-
enth inning, when Oshkosh made three
runs, the last one was made
to home plate. The ball went
close to the grand stand but Stockwell
picked up the second ball and made a
pretense that it was the playing ball.
In the twelfth inning Pickett was quite
seriously hurt by being struck on the
left arm and was relieved, Mccarthy
going to second, Crooks to short and
Cleveland to third. Great batting work
was done by O'C0nnell, Roche, Burns,
Doran, Cleveland, Crooks and WiImOt.
O'Connell pounded the ball over the
right fence and Cleveland over the left
| for home runs. Pretty double plays
were made by Cleveland, Crooks and
McCauley, and Pickett, Crooks and Nc
Cauley. Crooks played great game at
| second, and batted so well that it was
expected he would repeat his home run
triumphs, but he did not. At the close
of the game the crowd went wild with
enthusiasm. Oshkosh went from the
grounds to the train, which was kept
waiting, and supper was served aboard
so as to get to Lacrosse in time to play
to-morfow's game. The following is
the ScOrp. s.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-18
THE ARRIVAL:
1t Was Attended With No Unusual
Excitement.

TORONTO, May 17.-William O'Brien
arrived in the city at IL o'clock to-day
from Montreal by the Canadian Pacific
railroad. Although the hour of setting
out from Montreal was very late-mid-
night-large crowds accompanied him to
the railway station cheering and waving
their hats. He stood Oh the rear plat
form of the sleeping car surrounded by
the special correspondents of New York
and Chicago newspapers, and by the
time the train made start his arm was
swollen from handshaking. The crowd
sang in excellent chorus, ''FOr He's a
Jolly Good Fellow" and ''GOd Save Ire
land" in which Mr.. O'Brien himself
joined and as the cars moved out from
the platform he took off his hat and ex-
claimed, "GOd prosper you all, God save
Ireland" Then cheers arose again.
''Three cheers for the American press"
was the refrain taken up and echoed and
re-echOed until those on the car could
hear no more. A little later lone man
rushed across the track, and, looking
defantly at Mr.. O'Brien, said,
THREE CHEERS FOR RLANSDOWNE,v
and disappeared in the darkness.
Poor fellow" remarked Mr.. O'Brien.
shouted in the same hurried wav, No
home rule but it was the last we heard
of him, for he died next day. That un-
known mans voice is the first in favor
of Lansdowne have heard since came
to Canada" Fifty miles from here sew
eral Toronto newspaper correspondents
boarded the train and showed Mr..
O'Brien the morning papers, Offering
their opinion at the same time that there
would be no riot, though 4some disap-
proval might be shown. This has Ger
tainly been true sofar. Long before he
reached the depot passengers in out
going trains and groups of people lined
along the tracks, on either side, peered
in anxiously with anything but kind
looks on their faces, and would exclaim.
as they pointed with what looked more
like the finger of scorn than curiosity:
''THAT's HIM!'
At length the depot was reached at eX-
actly II o'clock, and before Mr.. O'Brien
could rise from his seat, surging crowds
who filled the platform and blocked all
the passage ways, Overfiowed into the
cars, and the editor of United Ireland
was swept from his seat and carried al
most off his feet into carriage which
Continued on Fourth Page.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-18

and in the earlier part of the game he
was quite effective, but beginning with
the sixth inning the WashingtOns solved
his delivery and pounded out singles,
doubles, triples and home runs with
such a mOnOtonOus rapidity that the
White Stockings were really tagged out
chasing the ball, and wore an express
sion of ''don't care" that made the spec
tators sympathize with them. The
game was simply slugging match, and
for individual hOnOrs Sullivan was en-
titled to them. He went to the bat five
times and hit safely on four occasions,
three of them being long drives for
three bases. Carroll, Hines and O'Brien
also batted well. O'Brien was given
trial at center field, and if tO-day'S eX-
hibitiOn can be taken as a criterion he
will fill the bill exactly. He accepted
seven chances WITHOUT an error.
Chicago. o 2 o o o 2 i 6
Washington. % ] o o 6 3-l4
Errors, Chicago D. Washington 4p earned
runs, Washington II, Chicago g. b :thits,
Washington II, Chicago II; two-base hits,
Carroll, Shock, Hines, O'Brien, Daily; three
base hits, Carroll 2, Sullivan 3; home run.
Hines; first base on balls, Whitney, Crane;
hit by pitched ball, Mack first base on errors,
Washington 2, Chicago 9; struck out by
Baldwin 2 by Whitney 1 passed ball. Mack
/ wild pitches, Baldwin 4, Whitney /; UNI
Dire. Powers
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-18
OSHKOSH WILL STICK.
1t VIII Stay in the League What
ever Nav HapDen.

OSHKOSH, May 17.-Reports sent to
outside papers that the Oshkosh base
ball association would probably release
its nine before the close of the season,
on account of the poor attendance and
large expenses, have created an erron-
eous impression. While the attendance
has not been all that is desired, there is
plenty of money at the back of the nine,
and the season will be played through,
lose or win. The expenses of the nine
are nearly double what they were last
year, and unless the attendance is from
500 to 800 at each game the association
will run behind. At the rate of patron
age so far, the loss will not fall short of
$4,000, but it is confidently expected that
as the season progresses the attendance
will grow. If the association drops the
amount named there will be no likeli-
hood of team being maintained next
season, but it is the belief that the aSSo-
citation, if it does not come out even,
will not sink more than 81 500 to s., 900,
provided the weather and other con-
ditiOnS are good. The association
officers say that they will be willing to
lose this amount and go in another year.
1t is thought that if the season turns
out better than expected, new grounds,
with as fine accommodations as any
where in the Northwest, will be pro-
Vided.